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Monday, 22 September 2014

Men Are In Charge of Women

LESSON
# 499 FROM HOLY QUR’AN

Men Are In Charge of Women

Surah NISAAA’ (WOMEN) - Chapter - 4)

Verses
–34a of 176, Section –6/24 (Part – 5)

Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath
made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their
property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding
in secret that which Allah hath guarded.

Qawwaamuuna – (In charge, caretaker, and
governors), this word’s singular is Qawwam, which has been derived from Qayyaam. There may be two aiming
meanings of this word:

·The ruler and
the monitor.

·The person,
who provides surety, guarantee and security.

Many religious interpreters have described the
meaning of qawwaamuuna
‘alan-nisaaa-‘i as ‘the Sponsoring
and providers of livelihood to the women, and their protectors.

Grades of men and women have been mentioned in
this verse and it has been described that the men are senior to the women.
Therefore, due to difference of their both grades, the difference will also be
about them and this difference depends entirely on wisdom. Women and men are
not equal. If the women wish equality and balance with the men, then it will be
totally improper and unreasonable. Allah Almighty has appointed the men to look
after the women, in charge of them and their caretakers. Following reasons have
been described about the excellence of the men:

·The man has been bestowed excellence over the
woman. This excellence is with regard to carnal and spiritual, as well as
knowledge and practice too.

·The men spend their wealth on the women. They are
responsible to provide them money or its value incumbent on the husband, daily
food, clothes, expenses of maintenance, necessities of life, for affairs of housekeeping
and at each time of exigency etc.

Two responsibilities of good-natured women have
been described in the Noble Qur’an:

·They obey
their men.

·In the
absence of husband, they protect themselves and preserve the wealth of their
husbands according to the order of Allah Almighty, that is to say; they keep
the duties of their married state and do not embezzle in the right of their
husband.

In the modern period, echo of mutual equation
between men and women is elevating by the people of new (false) illuminated
countries. The women are claiming equality of the men. For us, this verse of
Holy Qur’an renders good service of flambeau of the way. In addition, these
western nations have been viewing the vicious results of their civilization
with their open eyes. Instead of following such nations blindly, it is our duty
to get advice from this verse of Noble Qur’an and produce a pattern for others.

Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated
Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif).